Area Mental Health gets $64000 housing grant for two counties
Area Mental Health Center has been awarded a $64,000 Tenant Based Rental Assistance grant through the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation. The two county program in Ford and Finney counties provides rental and deposit help for residents with severe mental illness under HUD and TBRA rules. Applications are accepted 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday at 531 Campus View Garden City.
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Ford
Finney
Kansas Housing Resources Corporation
TBRA
U.S. Housing and Urban Development
Area Mental Health Center
U.S. Hud
Garden City
Campus View
Khristy Guebara
Caroline Unruh
Bad Boyz Run For Groceries Fundraiser At Walmart
The Bad Boyz Boxing Club advertises a grocery dash fundraiser to support travel and gear. For $2, $3 or $5 donors gain increasingly longer chances in a May 27 Walmart drawing to select three participants, with the dash starting at 1 pm on May 31. Tickets available from club members, by phone numbers listed, or at the gym and Walmart doors.
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Bad Boyz Boxing Club
Walmart
Karen
Jessica
Sheila
Robert
E. Fulton St
City Commission Meeting Rescheduled in Garden City
The City Commission meeting originally set for Tuesday has been moved to May 24 at 1 p.m. in the City Commission Chambers at the City Administrative Center 301 N. 8th St. Contact City Clerk Stacey Frizzell at 276-1100 or sfrizzell@gardencity.org with questions.
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City Commission
N. 8Th St
Conract
Stacey Frizzell
City of
Garden City
Sfrizzel
Gardencityorg
Farm incomes rise as land values soar in reserve district
The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City reports continued farm boom with high crop and livestock prices lifting farm income. Cropland values rose about 20 percent from last year as farmers invest gains into land and equipment, with more farmers using cash as down payments on purchases across Kansas Nebraska Oklahoma Wyoming Colorado northern New Mexico and western Missouri.
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Omaha
Neb
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas
Kansas lawmakers end work with anti abortion push
Kansas lawmakers backed restrictions on abortion coverage in private insurance and approved an $18.8 billion budget cutting about $330,000 in federal family planning funds from Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri. The measures, part of a broader abortion‑opposition push, aim to deter insurers from covering abortions and to tighten clinic standards while Brownback’s administration signs related laws. Planned Parenthood plans potential legal challenges and warns of service cuts at Kansas clinics.
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Topeka
Kansas
Planned Parenthood
Sam Brownback
Brownback
Mid- Missouri
Tait Sue
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
House
State Senate
Planned Parenthood of
Mid-Missouri
Tals
Hays
Wichita
Kansas City
Sherriene Jones-Sontag
Kathy Ostrowski
Kansans For Life
Sebelius
Mark Parkinson
Annie Kuether
Guttmacher Institute
Missouri
Indiana
Budget talks on tap for Finney County Commission
Finney County Commissioners continue the annual budget deliberations with an 8:30 a.m. session in the Administrative Center where six county or county-supported agencies will present 2012 budgets. Agencies include Southwest Developmental Services Inc, Russell Child Development Center, Finney County Public Library, the Kansas District Court, the Conservation District, and Area Mental Health.
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Finney County
Southwest Developmental Services Inc
Russell Child Development Center
Finney County Public Library
The
Kansas District Court
Conservation District
Area Mental Health
Mark Hinde
Southwest Development
Deanna Berry
Russell Child Development
Erin Franceour
Diana Jones
Craig Aronson
Connie Richemeier
Conservation
Ric Dalke
Lisa Southern
Spirit of the Plains
CASA
25Th Judicial District
Don Doll
Randy Partington
Kansas DUI law strengthened with interlock devices
Both chambers of the Kansas Legislature backed a measure to tighten DUI penalties. The bill requires all DUI offenders to install interlock devices, creates a central offender-repository funded by 2.5 million dollars, and lets prosecutors pursue tougher charges for repeat DUI convictions. First time offenders face six months of interlock use. fines rise to 750 dollars for a DUI misdemeanor.
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Topeka
Kansas
House
Senate
Pat Colloton
R-Leawood
Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee
Wichita Eagle
Lance Kinzer
R-olathe
Kinzer
Kansas Department of Transportation
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Mary Ann Khoury
DUI Victim Center of
Wichita
Cancer survivor Nick Jones plans Wichita graduation with honors
Wichita Southeast High School senior Nick Jones faced T cell ALL at 15 and fought through chemotherapy, sepsis, brain and lung surgery, and a 2008 bone marrow transplant. While hospitalized he kept up school via eSchool, finishing with honors. He will graduate this year and attend Newman University on a Board of Trustees scholarship to study biochemistry.
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Wichita
Nick Jones
Wichita Southeast High School
Newman University
Board of Trustees
Angie Brown
Southeast
Jones
Terry Hermreck
Children’s Mercy Hospital
Kansas City
Hermreck
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Bad Boyz
Finnup Park
Washington, D.C
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